Amanda Ferguson (age:17)
Sara Stacy (age:17)
This project involves composting food waste from the Roger Bacon HS cafeteria and foods classes. The project will include providing a waste receptacle for the cafeteria staff, foods teacher, and cafeteria waste sites for student waste from lunches. These will be checked daily and dumped. Research will be done to determine what type of composter to install on the property, where to install on the property, & what type of care the composter will require. The composted material will be used to enrich school flower beds and the project will culminate with the planting of flower beds and a tree dedicated to the endangered polar bears. We plan on educating our students and staff about what type of material may be composted and make the process as user-friendly as possible. We plan on measuring how much trash each group makes on a weekly basis and then measuring how much trash vs. compostable waste produced. We can then do some analysis of the progress our program is making on our RB community. We are considering making a website for this program. We will advertise this on the school website.
Progress!
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 16:11This is just a video on our current success with the compost. http://s207.photobucket.com/albums/bb46/omgxamandasxon/?action=view¤t=c28321c3.mp4 I...
[Read More]New Posters: New Motivation
Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 21:59We have recruited the Planeteers of our school to make new signs for our recycling bins in the cafeteria. The old ones have grown, well, old and when the need arose, our...
[Read More]CO2 emissions reduced
Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 10:26In search of reliable, fact based carbon calculators we discovered that our composting has reduced about 6000 pounds of CO2! Taking almost 3 tons out of our schools total...
[Read More]In the News
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 10:17Our group was recently featured in a local newspaper called the Hilltop Press! It talks about the composting program we have set up at our school and our goal of reducing...
[Read More]Ayn Rand
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 10:09"The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves." -Ayn Rand Upon...
[Read More]Detours and Pleasant Surprises
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 08:40During the course of our composting, we have come across a few detours. Including motivation and type of compost bins. When first starting our project, we had quite a bit of...
[Read More]Pictures: building our compost!
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 08:40The future site of our compost bin. And so the building begins. Here is a picture of us building our first compost bin! Here's Amanda helping with the hammering! Here's...
[Read More]Weather Prompt
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 22:05Here in Cincinnati, 39° 9' 42'' N/ 84° 27' 24'' W, winter has set in with its freezing temperatures, yet on some random days warmth remains. The cold seems to have come later...
[Read More]Our Community
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 08:09In our composting project, we have included our entire school community. The town in which our school resides in is a fairly small, urban town of St. Bernard, Ohio. Our...
[Read More]Motivation
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 08:06With our composting program we have kept our members fairly motivated. Everyday after school we go to our science teacher, Mrs. Guldner and then to our compost bin outside...
[Read More]- 1 of 2
- ››